SUMMARY:

• An experienced and result - oriented Sr. DevOps Engineer with 15 years of industry expertise in systems management, networking and virtualization that has given an a unique skillset of developing DevOps culture. I ‘am currently working as a Sr.DevOps engineer at Adobe
• Over 15 years of expertise in Implementing Organization Strategy in the environments of Linux and Windows.
• Great focus on systems’ reliability, performance, security and scalability. Passionate proponent and advocate of DevOps culture.
• Working knowledge of Azure Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and coming trends in the Cloud space.
• Serving as a hands-on subject matter expert for DevOps and Automation in an Azure/AWS infrastructure environment
• Strong foundation of knowledge around Azure and/or AWS cloud services and the cloud ecosystem
• Work with business units, software developers, security, to design and build applications and services within AWS and/or other cloud providers
• Provide daily monitoring, management, troubleshooting and issue resolution to systems and services hosted on cloud resources
• Manage and support full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud based computing environments
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for our server based technologies
• Strong familiarity with software configuration management systems and/or source code version control systems, Git experience highly desired.
• Passion for automating repetitive work using scripting languages (shell) and automation platforms like Ansible and Chef. Rewrote shell deploy scripts, reducing deployment times from 5+ hours to less than 2 minutes
• Production experience with public cloud service providers such as AWS & Microsoft Azure,
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, or related technologies for distributed system administration.
• Work closely with our architects and engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environment that effectively reflect our client's business needs, security, and service level requirements.
• Strong knowledge of networks, compute, cloud, virtualization, network infrastructure, telecom networks, circuits, datacenter technologies and best practices.
• Administering Different OS like windows and UNIX flavors running JEE application servers.
• Working knowledge of NoSQL technologies like Mongo and Big-Data Systems like Hadoop
• Build process automation using Maven, Jenkins and Nexus for all supported applications.
• Build container infrastructure across public cloud providers and private datacenters.
• Automate the provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, and improvement of cluster fleets
• Work hand-in-hand with development and client teams in production-level environments.
• Good working Knowledge of VMWare, Xen and Red hat Open Shift
• Develop and maintain of documentation for supported systems and applications including architecture diagrams, technical specifications, failure response procedures (FRP), disaster recovery procedures (DRP) and operations acceptance package (OAP). Ensure all operational and support documentations are up to date.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technology issues efficiently in live production environment and drive to quick resolutions; leverage those events to improve current technology & processes towards prevention of such issues.
• Remain current with industry trends and keep abreast of knowledge and new developments in evolving technological products and features. Maintain focus on changing business needs, internal standards and industry best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in design of cloud management stack, primarily in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS GovCloud, used to host client servers and services across tiered branches of architecture
• Designed cloud solutions for customers leveraging services including, but not limited to, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudWatch and SNS
• Automated creation and deployment of CIS-hardened, cfn-boostrap-ready, CloudWatch-enabled custom AMIs across CentOS 6/7, RHEL 6/7, Windows Server 2008/2012 R2
• Automated deployment of customer environments using complex CloudFormation stacks to create assets in IAM, VPC, EC2, Route53, CloudTrail, Lambda, etc. while protecting business-critical assets from deletion via Stack Policies
• Migrate service from a managed hosting environment to AWS including: service design, network layout, HIPAA compliance, data migration, automation, monitoring, deployments and cutover, documentation, overall plan, cost analysis, and timeline
• Redesigned existing Amazon AWS infrastructure to improve security and availability, eliminate single points of failure, enhance maintainability via simplification. Built automation system to enable deployment of an entire application environment in a matter of hours instead of weeks or months.
• Improved application integration methods, emphasizing better utilization of configuration management tools to simplify procedures, promote uniformity, reduce errors and time required to deploy new applications
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration, Automation and Configuration Management tools
• Working knowledge of Azure Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and coming trends in the Cloud space
• Serving as a hands-on subject matter expert for DevOps and Automation in an Azure/AWS infrastructure environment
• Strong foundation of knowledge around Azure and/or AWS cloud services and the cloud ecosystem
• Automate operational tasks such as software configuration, server scaling and deployments, and database setups in multiple AWS cloud environments with the use of modern application and configuration management tools (e.g. Jenkins && Chef)
• Atlassian Data centre products configuring, managing, implementation and administration of Jira and Confluence
• Promote adoption and best practices among the system user community and conduct user-training and help-sessions for new features or implementations
• Experience with building containers and cluster management (Docker, Marathon, Mesos toolsets),
• Expertise in managing & configuring Application with High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuance capabilities
• Using monitoring tools to find problems, resolve and/or escalate to support and application development and ensure that we exceed our service levels.
• System administrative experience on Day CQ with J2EE application server, fine tuning, dispatcher cache and replication agent setup..
• Providing support to CQ5 a.k.a AEM development team

Confidential

Sr. Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed system high-availability, disaster recovery, and application fail-over
• Installed IBM Directory Server, IBM Directory Integrator, IBM Tivoli Access Manager and IBM Tivoli Identity Manager for e-business components on zOS
• Worked with Tools tier to create web Seal junctions for end edge user access
• Diagnosis and resolution of Configuration and Installation Problems.
• Configured WebSphere data Power ESB for SOA architecture
• Involved in technical evaluation of newer version of tool
• SSL setup for secure transactions Server Administration
• Administration of IHS, iPlanet, Apache and nginx webservers
• Middleware Infrastructure architectural design.
• Deployed scripts using Jython API’s provided by IB<
• Applied WebSphere fix packs to dev, QA and production environments
• Provided on-call 24X7 supports for Production environment. Workload Management, Clustering, Load Balancing
• Implemented Workload Management for applications by creating the clusters on WebSphere nodes and administering from WDM.
• Arrow Point CSS switch for efficient load balancing techniques.
• Created Multiple Clusters in dev QA and Production and production consistency environments using Performance Tuning
• Managed and Monitored System performance by Tracing and Analyzing Java Garbage Collection.
• Carry out heap dump analysis
• Performed WebSphere process tuning by JVM optimization, Java memory tuning, session management, db. connections pools etc.
• VERITAS i3 system to monitor application by digging it for the deepest level
• SSL accelerator to load balance web servers
• Implementing Class Loading policies
• Limiting the JVM Heap Size
• Load Runner to verify the application load to tune accordingly.
• BMC patrol for monitoring of the servers components.
• Maintain Web Environment including IHS and Apache web servers along with WebSphere running on different OS environments.
• Monitoring WebSphere environment
• Monitoring IHS Web servers.
• Installing Certificates to the servers.

Environment: Solaris 9, AIX, WebSphere Application server, Portal server, IHS and Apache web servers, Nginx, J2EE, DB2, Oracle 11g Red Hat Linux 5, BMC Patrol, SUN One Directory server, Tivoli Access Manager

Confidential

Web Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Script develops a suite of products for Enterprise Communication Management (ECM).
• Involved in the design and development of the Email Campaign Management product.
• Developing project requirements in collaboration with the functional team. Features such as managing multiple lists, multiple campaigns, tracking campaign success were included in the project.
• Used J2EE architecture based on MVC to develop the components of the product.
• Implemented Struts framework for Model-View-Controller Architecture.
• Implemented features to create lists merge, edit and delete them.
• Implemented XML features to store the data in Database.
• Developed modules for creating, managing and tracking the success of campaigns.
• Included security features for access control and authentication so users can access only portions of the product
• Migrating EJBs applications from WebSphere v3.5 to WebSphere 4.0 enhances alert Engine.
• Extensively deployed EJBs applications in WebSphere v4.0.
• Developed Jakarta Struts MVC framework to design/program, JSP presentation layer, Collections Package and Struts-Validator to validate the configuration files
• Developed JSP/Servlets to implement the application modules.
• Creating, deleting and modifying MSDSs for Company MSDS according to OSHA MSDSs form.
• Provided functionality so users can import, create and save MSDSs into the database using a user-friendly GUI. The imported MSDSs can later be retrieved through search/browse.
• RBAC setup for applications
• Setting up Environment for Application packaging and deploying.
• Ensuring consistent communication between WebSphere Clients, DB, Web Server and WebSphere Administration Server.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for both application DB and WAS administration DB
• Backup and archiving setup
• Performed WebSphere process tuning, Administrative Repository tuning, JVM optimization, Java memory tuning.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and Administering Windows 2000/NT 4 Professional and Server.
• Installing configuring and maintaining ADS, DHCP, DNS and WINS services.
• Configuring and maintaining sites and replication between client and the server.
• Installation configuration and maintenance of the SDG products at client locations and see to run the business smoothly.
• Configuring group and system policies for all types of users to access resources on the servers or across the network.
• Responsible for creating and managing web sites on Apache, IIS 5.0.and 4.0
• Performance monitoring and implementations of RAID's on servers for redundancy.
• Responsible for creating and managing web sites on IIS 5.0 and taking backups of the web server.
• Upgraded from Windows NT 3.51/4.00 to Windows 2000
• Managed Active Directory Server roles, Stand -alone servers, member server and workstations
• Automated Administrative Tasks, Policies and Procedures, Monitoring Processes, Services, and events
• Managing Files and Folders, Data sharing, Security, and Auditing
• Administering Network Printers and Print Services
• Verified that all domain controllers are communicating with the central monitoring console or collector (Directory Analyzer)
• Review the Authentication Report to help resolve problems generated by computer accounts with expired passwords.
• Verify that all domain controllers are running with the same service pack and hot fix patches.

Environment: Windows NT 4.0/ 2000, Red Hat Linux 7.2, Delphi, Java